Reid Draeger, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1477714947
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 3 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Exsomed Corporation accounts for 64.6% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $66 and has fallen 70.9% since, to $19 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $4,547.
Across 3 payments — averaging $34.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exsomed Corporation$66
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$19
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$17
Across 2 payments — averaging $22,630 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Acumed LLC$28K
- Arthrex$18K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$103100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $66 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 23 | $140 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chapel Hill
- Robert CreightonChapel Hill$303K
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.